News Article - 21 September 2006
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Age regulations due to be introduced in at the beginning of October could be used by junior partners to sue for a greater share in company profits, says an employment lawyer.

Cripp Harries Hall partner Roger Byard added that the rules could make it difficult to enforce the retirement ages specified in partnership agreements.

"If a partner is obliged by the partnership deed to retire at a certain age this will amount to direct discrimination," Mr Byard told Accountancy Age.

"Equally, where a policy or practice is applied that disadvantages groups who are defined by their age then this would amount to indirect discrimination."

The magazine noted that, like policemen, accountancy partners appear to be getting younger, with Ernst & Young recently appointing 28-year-old Tracy Wood.

Article keywords: Chancellor George Osborne recently announced 490, 000 public sector jobs would be lost over the next four years as part of Government measures

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